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New comment by peteretep in "A catalog of naturally occurring images whose Apple NeuralHash is identical"

peteretep — Wed, 25 Aug 2021 11:00:49 +0000

Exactly that. The tech seems fine, but I live in a country with a government that has strong censorship laws, and I do not trust Apple to not bend to countries like China in extending this to political content.

New comment by peteretep in "Old iPhones become faster if you change the region to France"

peteretep — Wed, 25 Aug 2021 00:35:35 +0000

Whether or not someone will click on the title of an article

New comment by peteretep in "The Coronavirus Is Here Forever"

peteretep — Mon, 23 Aug 2021 23:43:50 +0000

It worked pretty well for Thailand, a country with 3k of land borders that people can and do walk across. Delta seems to have changed the calculus though

New comment by peteretep in "The Coronavirus Is Here Forever"

peteretep — Mon, 23 Aug 2021 23:42:20 +0000

> it very likely escaped

Do you have a source for “very likely”? I’m at “plausibly escaped from” so far and would be interested in evidence that changes that in either direction.

New comment by peteretep in "It became common in the 18th century to speak of ‘English credulity’"

peteretep — Mon, 23 Aug 2021 11:08:08 +0000

> Also, the article title is clickbaity weird, why should people wonder if a common slur against a nationality from 3 centuries ago was true today?

The publication is a (very nicely written) right-wing rag for Little Englanders who want to believe they're a cut above Daily Mail readers.

New comment by peteretep in "Launch HN: Fella (YC W20) – Tackling men's obesity using medication and coaching"

peteretep — Sat, 21 Aug 2021 18:40:50 +0000

I had been very, very excited to start semaglutide, but about eight weeks ago I picked up a CBT-based eating book called The Beck Diet Solution and I’ve so far found it very very effective

New comment by peteretep in "Second largest US mortgage lender will accept crypto payments this year"

peteretep — Thu, 19 Aug 2021 21:34:14 +0000

It’s all bullshit marketing until someone is accepting payments for goods priced in crypto.

New comment by peteretep in "OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October"

peteretep — Thu, 19 Aug 2021 20:37:59 +0000

Perhaps, but OnlyFans will always be a porn site in consumer imaginations moving forward. Nobody’s going to put their wholesome knitting content on there moving forward

New comment by peteretep in "Ask HN: What's the most life-changing blog post you've ever read?"

peteretep — Thu, 19 Aug 2021 13:59:49 +0000

Becoming a magician

https://autotranslucence.wordpress.com/2018/03/30/becoming-a...

New comment by peteretep in "How good is Codex?"

peteretep — Thu, 19 Aug 2021 13:57:40 +0000

> Often Codex will write code that looks right at first glance, but actually has subtle errors.

New comment by peteretep in "Swiping left on magnetic stripes"

peteretep — Tue, 17 Aug 2021 05:46:56 +0000

> what are they doing to secure online payments?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-D_Secure

New comment by peteretep in "South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands"

peteretep — Mon, 16 Aug 2021 16:07:32 +0000

Finding Argentina on the list of trading partners of this considerably closer place is tricky... https://oec.world/en/profile/country/flk

New comment by peteretep in "South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands"

peteretep — Mon, 16 Aug 2021 15:18:14 +0000

> Easy trade with Argentina

Doubt it, given that they claim it

New comment by peteretep in "Masks Are Back, Maybe for the Long Term"

peteretep — Mon, 09 Aug 2021 14:46:52 +0000

> Yes but it doesn't explain why we've allowed people to willingly not get flu vaccines

Would you believe that that's _exactly_ the kind of things that Public Health professionals and academics _do_ debate and try and explain?

New comment by peteretep in "Masks Are Back, Maybe for the Long Term"

peteretep — Mon, 09 Aug 2021 14:41:49 +0000

Never going to happen, but yes, I’d love to see the NHS sue the people who didn’t get the vaccine and didn’t have an exemption for costs.

New comment by peteretep in "Masks Are Back, Maybe for the Long Term"

peteretep — Mon, 09 Aug 2021 14:40:37 +0000

> So why can't we vaccinated let them reap the consequences of their irresponsible actions?

Would you believe there’s literally an entire field of study about this called “Public Health”? You can do a Masters in it and everything

New comment by peteretep in "Masks Are Back, Maybe for the Long Term"

peteretep — Mon, 09 Aug 2021 14:38:41 +0000

> It just turned every outing into a chore

I’ve been in countries with outdoor mask mandates almost since the start of this thing, and I don’t really understand this. How has it become a chore? Don’t you just pick up a mask from a pack or a reusable one as you leave your home? I haven’t noticed any difference in sense of smell, albeit my sense of smell is very keen.

But again, what’s the chore here? It just feels like habit

New comment by peteretep in "Xsolla fires 150 employees based on big data analysis of their activity"

peteretep — Sun, 08 Aug 2021 16:56:59 +0000

I mean he properly leans into it in later comments too, so I don’t think it’s meant to be underhanded, just plainly aggressive

New comment by peteretep in "Tesseract.js – A Javascript port of the Tesseract OCR engine"

peteretep — Sun, 08 Aug 2021 13:04:03 +0000

> Tesseract.js wraps an emscripten port of the Tesseract OCR Engine

Calling this “pure JavaScript” seems misleading

New comment by peteretep in "Is Britain becoming more meritocratic than America?"

peteretep — Sun, 08 Aug 2021 10:30:01 +0000

No, the Crown does. Liz Windsor’s personal wealth is (probably) closer to £300m